“Everyday my heart falls deeper in the pain of your sorrow.
Your cruel heart is weary of me already.
You have left me alone, yet your sorrow remains.
Truly your sorrow is more faithful than you are”

— Rumi

Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (2000)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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